why I only get a clearcase version 0?

Question

Normally, the first committed version should start from 1. Version 0 is identical with branch point. But now I got a only version 0, and this prevent me to checkin any other version coz it warned me that the branch already created.

Answer 1

ClearCase creates version 0 when you create an element (or a branch), which is usually checked out automatically. Version 0 is always either empty, or same as the branched version, as you noted. There shouldn't be any problem simply checking in version 1 on top of it.

Note that branches are created when you check out, not when you check in, so you shouldn't get any warnings on check-in. If you post the exact command line and warnings/errors, we'll probably be able to help you out more.

It could perhaps be that you've created a new element on your branch, and you're missing "/main/0 -mkbranch" in your config spec.

HTH.